{"id":5928,"date":"2025-04-28T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T08:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2025-05-03T18:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T10:13:31","slug":"doomscrolling-into-isolation-how-social-media-addiction-wastes-time-and-hinders-real-life-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5928\/doomscrolling-into-isolation-how-social-media-addiction-wastes-time-and-hinders-real-life-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomscrolling Into Isolation: How Social Media Addiction Wastes Time and Hinders Real-Life Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"\nTime is one of the few things in life we can never get back. How we spend it shapes not only our days, but who we become. Moments spent talking with friends and family, walking through the park, or doing the things we love \u2013 these are the things that create a life well lived.\n\n\n\nAs humans, we have an innate desire for connection: to feel seen, heard, understood \u2013 to belong. Naturally, we give our time to the people and experiences that make us feel the most alive. Social media was created to <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5928\/doomscrolling-into-isolation-how-social-media-addiction-wastes-time-and-hinders-real-life-connection\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time is one of the few things in life we can never get back. How we spend it shapes not only our days, but who we become. Moments spent talking with friends and family, walking through the park, or doing the things we love \u2013 these are the things that create a life well lived. As humans, we have an innate desire for connection: to feel seen, heard, understood \u2013 to belong. Naturally, we give our time to the people and experiences that make us feel the most alive. Social media was created to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6282,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions\/6282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}